[the_old_crowd] Snape's Social Life

[Kat Macfarlane]

  I have never subscribed to the notion that the Worst Memory pensieve
  scene sheds light on the young Severus Snape's social life. The argument
  usually goes like this: No one stuck up for Snape in the pensieve scene,
  therefore, he had no real friends at Hogwarts. Or all his friends had
  left by his fifth year. 

  Now, I'm skeptical of this argument in the first place because of the
  underlying assumption that friends spend 100% of their time in each
  others' presence. Is it so hard to imagine that Snape's buddies just
  weren't there that afternoon? Maybe Wilkes was brushing up on Astronomy
  in the Slytherin dungeon that day James dangled Snape upside down to
  impress Lily. 

  But a further psychological problem with this argument has occurred to
  me lately, when I remembered who exactly one of Snape's schoolmates was.

  Avery.

  I am trying to imagine the Avery we know and love in GoF and OotP,
  Voldemort's favourite punching bag and all-time nervous wreck,
  intervening in Snape's favour against Sirius and James.

  Trying and miserably failing. 

  No one said Snape's friends had to be capable, strong, and brave, right?

Granted, I don't see Avery galloping to the rescue. But what's to stop him rallying the Slytherins to save one of their own from being humiliated by the hated Gryffindors? It wouldn't even have to be a matter of friendship--just of house pride.

By the way, where do you get that Snape was particularly friends with Wilkes and Avery? Does Sirius mention it somewhere?

La Gatta Lucianese



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